Games evolve to become platform businesses in their own right — “We compete with (and lose to) Fortnite more than HBO.” It might seem odd that Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix, would consider Fortnite, after all a game, a bigger competitor than its streaming rival HBO. It isn’t odd at all. …

IT’S ALL FUN AND GAMES, ALONG WITH SOME FIERCE COMPETITION — 2018 will enter the books as one of the most exciting years for the global gaming industry in recent history: Sustained high growth (despite falling just short of the 2018 targets) to cross the USD 130bn threshold, games like PUBG and Fortnite breaking out and becoming socio-cultural phenomena, or streaming…

WHY BEING REAL IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR BUSINESSES — It’s the end of an admirable career and legacy. Andres Iniesta sits on the field in the famous Camp Nou after his final game for Barcelona. There’s a lot the world of business can learn from those particular moments in sports and Tim Leberecht, Co-founder and Co-CEO of The Business…

Hybrid ecosystems arise as digital technology infiltrates the physical world — a golden opportunity for Germany’s backbone — Eheningen, Ditzingen, Stolberg, Allendorf. What sounds like a random assortment of letters are in fact picturesque locations in Germany. …

Company building is uniquely positioned to help both startups and corporates succeed in deep tech — if done right — “It will be crucial for hidden champions to meaningfully connect the knowledge of ‘digital natives’ with their own knowledge of industrial engineering. Almost daily, new startups emerge in Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, London, and Berlin. The business model of these new companies is to create even more value through digital…

For industrial companies the current technological progress is an existential threat, but it’s also the opportunity of the century. — In Nazare, a little village on the coast of Portugal, roughly 120km north of Lisbon, Brazilian surfers Carlos Burle and Maya Gabeira are in the water as the biggest wave ever to be surfed unfolds behind them. 100ft tall (or 30.48m) to be precise. Burle will set the world record…

Public service announcement: We are WATTx — a new kind of company builder. Why new? Because we develop deep tech and rigorously kill our own ideas to make sure we found startups who themselves can make a killing in the big IoT universe. — After ten months of hard work, two strategic pivots, relentless prototyping with customers, and a steep learning curve across our entire team, we’ve arrived at our true identity and are ready to make an impact. We’re WATTx — a new company builder based out of Europe’s number one startup ecosystem…

Case in point for five exponential technologies changing our world, highlighted during the Singularity Global Summit 2016 — “We’re living in the most extraordinary times in human history.” — Peter Diamandis The first ever Singularity University Global Summit took place a week ago — quite appropriately — in the world’s tech capitol San Francisco. For three entire days it was all about exponential technologies and how they will…

Innovation is the currency of the digital age. The overwhelming majority of people will agree with this statement, given the omnipresence of the terminology around innovation as well as new companies disrupting industries or older companies digitally transforming themselves. And given the increased likelihood of incumbent companies dying, innovation has…